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stalkerbunnyBecause they've been ~awesome episodes~ \¤3¤/
Firstly, last weekend I saw The Gunfighters and Curse of Peladon with friends, and last night it was Horror of Fang Rock.
The Gunfighters: One and Steven and Dodo are lovely, nothing surprising there. And there's a peculiar combination of the episode feeling like a (fairly) lighthearted wild west musical and a high and fairly gruesome body count. Oh Classic Who... Anyway, not much to say, but I did enjoy it.
Curse of Peladon AAAAAH CUTEST EPISODE *flail*
Firstly, visually pretty, both very fantasy-e and even reminded me of comic book visuals, with how colourful everything is, costumes and backgrounds etc. Even Three's red-green tartan cloak is uncommonly bright, even for him.
Meanwhile, all bow down to Jo Grant for climbing sheer mountain walls and balancing on tiny ledges in a long pink dress and pink heels*. MAD SKILLZ. ¤A¤
* Which she had on because she planned to go on a date with Yates, and instead was whisked on adventure by Time Lords and ended up flirting with and almost marrying an half-alien King. Poor Mike. :'D
And while we're talking about costumes, the Peladonians are straight out of classic shoujo and it is ridiculous and awesome. Glitter and purple and velvet EVERYWHERE. And cute striped hair/facial hair. Their King wears thigh high boots with glitter and a short-short velvet tunic. And their guards wear what is like the male version of the ridic "armour" more often seen on female characters on the Escher Girls Tumblr. Short skirts and holes over vital organs and movement limiting shoulder pads. Heck, the guards even have butt cleavage on their capes. b
Also King Hotpants (well, tunic) is played by young David Throughton and he is fluffy and kind of hapless and has a lisp. Also immediately crushes on Jo and keeps getting his foot in his mouth while talking to her. C-cute. ; A ; Jo seemed to like him too, despite everything...
I'm kind of on the fence re. shipping them, because on one hand I try not to ship characters just because they are adorable and would have the universe's most adorable offspring but... Jo and King Cutiepie. But he's still not good enough for Jo 2*, at least to be staying with in a foreign planet in a foreign time with, with little chance of visiting home. BUT.
In conclusion, it wouldn't work in canon but I ship it anyway. IN SOME UNIVERSE THEY WERE THE ENDGAME.3*
*2 Not that anyone is, really.
*3 Maybe in the fluffverse (you know, where Jo and later Rex and Strong Guy from Mind of Evil travel with the Master and everything turns out much more nicely)...
Special mentions:
- In other crack ships: The Ice Warrior envoy and the... other Ice Warrior seemed pretty close, and they only had one bed in their room. (When Jo found evidence the Ice Warrior she confronted was all "THAT IS NOT OURS." Ours.) So yeah, totally doing it, however it works with Ice Warriors.
- Aggredor.
Alf why???
- I also liked the designs on Alpha Centauri and Arcturus, they were pretty original and sort of cute in their own way. Especially that scene where the other ambassadors convince Alpha Centauri to agree to... something. Socute.
And I could squee further but I'll leave that here for now.
Horror of Fang Rock might just be the serial that made me like Four after all.* Before it I've been kind of meh towards him, based on what little I've seen (The Pirate Planet, The Sun Makers and Horns of Nimon) and heard from friends who I have similar taste with who've seen more.
* It also finally made me see exactly why Leela is so awesome even though M. has been telling me so for ages already
My problem's been that Four seems to be one of the more opaque/alien regenerations, in comparison to say, Three or Six who are especially human (for a given definition) and more open with their feelings in good and bad. And incidentally some of my favorite regenerations, so maybe that's a bit more where my tastes run.
Have discussed that with M. and we've formed a theory that Four's distancing and strive for total freedom from any entanglements (which is a theme for most versions of the Doctor, but might be especially characteristic of Four) could be a reaction to his regeneration as Three. Three was first physically stuck with UNIT, and by the time he regained the powers to travel freely, it was too late, he was too emotionally tied to UNIT to really get away from it. Being the Doctor, maybe that was on some level always abhorrent to him?
Returning to Horror of Fang Rock, Four is still very ambivalent, such as when he tells the people at the lighthouse that they might all be dead before morning and then gives them a wide, beaming smile, and you're not actually sure if he is that concerned over it. But somehow that actually works, rather than being just alienating. Possibly because the story is a gothic romantic horror story, Four and Leela seem to fit right into it?
Which is not to say they come across as evil, but they're neither of them nice or pleasant characters, Leela because she only knows a world where death and killing is a fact of life and Four... it's hard to say whether he actually gives much of a damn about the random humanoids he comes across. What does however come across in HoFR, is that in all his nonchalance he does give a damn about Leela, and vice versa, and the interaction between those two tugged at my heartstrings in all its casual brutality at times.2*
2* Like Leela telling the Doctor to kill her because she's been blinded, and the Doctor just going "lol you'll get your sight back in a minute, silly. 8D"
Besides which, the story in itself is just cool, it's a horror story, but it's not cheap startles or gross-out horror (which I don't much care for since it works too well on me).
And the ending words from the Doctor, taken from The Ballad of Flannan Isle which the story is based on, are wonderfully chilling and made me do a full body flail just due to that.3*
3* One of several, most others were caused by Leela being Leela.
Firstly, last weekend I saw The Gunfighters and Curse of Peladon with friends, and last night it was Horror of Fang Rock.
The Gunfighters: One and Steven and Dodo are lovely, nothing surprising there. And there's a peculiar combination of the episode feeling like a (fairly) lighthearted wild west musical and a high and fairly gruesome body count. Oh Classic Who... Anyway, not much to say, but I did enjoy it.
Curse of Peladon AAAAAH CUTEST EPISODE *flail*
Firstly, visually pretty, both very fantasy-e and even reminded me of comic book visuals, with how colourful everything is, costumes and backgrounds etc. Even Three's red-green tartan cloak is uncommonly bright, even for him.
Meanwhile, all bow down to Jo Grant for climbing sheer mountain walls and balancing on tiny ledges in a long pink dress and pink heels*. MAD SKILLZ. ¤A¤
* Which she had on because she planned to go on a date with Yates, and instead was whisked on adventure by Time Lords and ended up flirting with and almost marrying an half-alien King. Poor Mike. :'D
And while we're talking about costumes, the Peladonians are straight out of classic shoujo and it is ridiculous and awesome. Glitter and purple and velvet EVERYWHERE. And cute striped hair/facial hair. Their King wears thigh high boots with glitter and a short-short velvet tunic. And their guards wear what is like the male version of the ridic "armour" more often seen on female characters on the Escher Girls Tumblr. Short skirts and holes over vital organs and movement limiting shoulder pads. Heck, the guards even have butt cleavage on their capes. b
Also King Hotpants (well, tunic) is played by young David Throughton and he is fluffy and kind of hapless and has a lisp. Also immediately crushes on Jo and keeps getting his foot in his mouth while talking to her. C-cute. ; A ; Jo seemed to like him too, despite everything...
I'm kind of on the fence re. shipping them, because on one hand I try not to ship characters just because they are adorable and would have the universe's most adorable offspring but... Jo and King Cutiepie. But he's still not good enough for Jo 2*, at least to be staying with in a foreign planet in a foreign time with, with little chance of visiting home. BUT.
In conclusion, it wouldn't work in canon but I ship it anyway. IN SOME UNIVERSE THEY WERE THE ENDGAME.3*
*2 Not that anyone is, really.
*3 Maybe in the fluffverse (you know, where Jo and later Rex and Strong Guy from Mind of Evil travel with the Master and everything turns out much more nicely)...
Special mentions:
- In other crack ships: The Ice Warrior envoy and the... other Ice Warrior seemed pretty close, and they only had one bed in their room. (When Jo found evidence the Ice Warrior she confronted was all "THAT IS NOT OURS." Ours.) So yeah, totally doing it, however it works with Ice Warriors.
- Aggredor.
Alf why???
- I also liked the designs on Alpha Centauri and Arcturus, they were pretty original and sort of cute in their own way. Especially that scene where the other ambassadors convince Alpha Centauri to agree to... something. Socute.
And I could squee further but I'll leave that here for now.
Horror of Fang Rock might just be the serial that made me like Four after all.* Before it I've been kind of meh towards him, based on what little I've seen (The Pirate Planet, The Sun Makers and Horns of Nimon) and heard from friends who I have similar taste with who've seen more.
* It also finally made me see exactly why Leela is so awesome even though M. has been telling me so for ages already
My problem's been that Four seems to be one of the more opaque/alien regenerations, in comparison to say, Three or Six who are especially human (for a given definition) and more open with their feelings in good and bad. And incidentally some of my favorite regenerations, so maybe that's a bit more where my tastes run.
Have discussed that with M. and we've formed a theory that Four's distancing and strive for total freedom from any entanglements (which is a theme for most versions of the Doctor, but might be especially characteristic of Four) could be a reaction to his regeneration as Three. Three was first physically stuck with UNIT, and by the time he regained the powers to travel freely, it was too late, he was too emotionally tied to UNIT to really get away from it. Being the Doctor, maybe that was on some level always abhorrent to him?
Returning to Horror of Fang Rock, Four is still very ambivalent, such as when he tells the people at the lighthouse that they might all be dead before morning and then gives them a wide, beaming smile, and you're not actually sure if he is that concerned over it. But somehow that actually works, rather than being just alienating. Possibly because the story is a gothic romantic horror story, Four and Leela seem to fit right into it?
Which is not to say they come across as evil, but they're neither of them nice or pleasant characters, Leela because she only knows a world where death and killing is a fact of life and Four... it's hard to say whether he actually gives much of a damn about the random humanoids he comes across. What does however come across in HoFR, is that in all his nonchalance he does give a damn about Leela, and vice versa, and the interaction between those two tugged at my heartstrings in all its casual brutality at times.2*
2* Like Leela telling the Doctor to kill her because she's been blinded, and the Doctor just going "lol you'll get your sight back in a minute, silly. 8D"
Besides which, the story in itself is just cool, it's a horror story, but it's not cheap startles or gross-out horror (which I don't much care for since it works too well on me).
And the ending words from the Doctor, taken from The Ballad of Flannan Isle which the story is based on, are wonderfully chilling and made me do a full body flail just due to that.3*
3* One of several, most others were caused by Leela being Leela.
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Date: 2013-04-14 04:14 pm (UTC)But really, Four gets plenty of love, nothing wrong with you preferring Three and Six!